Fox Collectors

Was it common for an alpha to follow the numeric serial number at one time? Example: 12345A

I assume the alpha would denote the grade?

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I should've been more specific. If I understood correctly, the impression I got was that the alpha was included in the serial# on the lower tang.

I told him to look at the tang, but perhaps he was looking at the receiver and/or the barrel flats.

I recently purchased a nice Philadelphia AH Fox Sterlingworth. Ser #916xx. Sent a request to Savage Arms this morning for information. Does anyone have an idea as to date of manufacture?

Thanks, Arctic Fox

You probably won't get a lot of information on a Sterlingworth but they should give you a shipping date.

I've never seen a grade letter with the serial number on the exterior of the trigger guard back strap. In the early Wayne & Bristol Street years the grade letter was stamped pretty close to the serial number on the watertable.
After the move to North 18th Street & Windrim Avenue the grade letter moved a bit farther away from the serial number on the watertable.

By the Savage years they weren't sure where to stamp the grade --

arcticfox wrote:I recently purchased a nice Philadelphia AH Fox Sterlingworth. Ser #916xx. Sent a request to Savage Arms this morning for information. Does anyone have an idea as to date of manufacture?

Thanks, Arctic Fox

Did you receive your Savage Arms letter yet? Just curious how close manufacture date was to 1920-1921?

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